Gavin
@schofig.bsky.social
North West UK
He/Him
Sometimes paints miniatures, or posts pictures of cats, or talks about films/books, works in 'data'
Some sort of leftist
He/Him
Sometimes paints miniatures, or posts pictures of cats, or talks about films/books, works in 'data'
Some sort of leftist
Pinned
Here are two very good friends who have been helping me move furniture today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here are two very good friends who have been helping me move furniture today.
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Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
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Me when i spread butter on my toast.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Me when i spread butter on my toast.
I met this bird today
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I met this bird today
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I've been following media coverage of immigration in detail over the last six weeks. There hasn't been a day during that period that the British people weren't told that asylum seekers are a drain on society or a danger to women and children
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I've been following media coverage of immigration in detail over the last six weeks. There hasn't been a day during that period that the British people weren't told that asylum seekers are a drain on society or a danger to women and children
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
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i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
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Obviously this is ghoulish pseudo-technological nonsense and it's objectively a good thing that it can never actually exist, but still somehow the most unrealistic thing in this ad is that it shows the service this company offers continuing, functionality unchanged, for decades
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Obviously this is ghoulish pseudo-technological nonsense and it's objectively a good thing that it can never actually exist, but still somehow the most unrealistic thing in this ad is that it shows the service this company offers continuing, functionality unchanged, for decades
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idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
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i sometimes like reading wiki articles for things I love deeply and getting incredibly mad at how literally they take everything
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
i sometimes like reading wiki articles for things I love deeply and getting incredibly mad at how literally they take everything
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Funny but these kinds of posts do make me feel like the wiki-fication of all fiction has been a net negative
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Funny but these kinds of posts do make me feel like the wiki-fication of all fiction has been a net negative
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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if you don't read the Telegraph or the Times or the Mail - and frankly, why would you nowadays, as a decent human being? - you might not realize just how much they've radicalized to the far-right, especially the Telegraph.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
if you don't read the Telegraph or the Times or the Mail - and frankly, why would you nowadays, as a decent human being? - you might not realize just how much they've radicalized to the far-right, especially the Telegraph.
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wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
"The wide-ranging polling on attitudes also suggested the proportion of the public feeling transgender rights have gone "too far" has more than doubled in five years" I WISH there was a follow-up question as to what new trans rights they think have come in over say, I dunno, the last 15 years?
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
Here's some stuff I painted recently and forgot to post.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's some stuff I painted recently and forgot to post.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
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Burn the gambling industry down. Seize the assets of every single company and plough them into mental health services. Sow the ground with salt.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Burn the gambling industry down. Seize the assets of every single company and plough them into mental health services. Sow the ground with salt.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
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This isn't a Wi-Fi outage, it's an ISP outage! Your Wi-FI was fine! This is a hill I will die on.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This isn't a Wi-Fi outage, it's an ISP outage! Your Wi-FI was fine! This is a hill I will die on.
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Small point I hadn't noticed until someone highlighted it to me on the other site; a commentator who still thinks of a computer monitor as a "TV screen" is likely to be out of touch on other matters too.
I'm always quite sceptical of claims like this. The main barrier to data-led campaigns in Britain is the availability of data on registered voters, not the tech to analyse it
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Small point I hadn't noticed until someone highlighted it to me on the other site; a commentator who still thinks of a computer monitor as a "TV screen" is likely to be out of touch on other matters too.
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It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
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Went canvassing tonight and I'm starting to develop a theory of the Reform, and indeed general anti-immigrationist phenomenon that goes something like this: it's a moral panic. In the traditional sense.
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Went canvassing tonight and I'm starting to develop a theory of the Reform, and indeed general anti-immigrationist phenomenon that goes something like this: it's a moral panic. In the traditional sense.
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This makes me furious beyond words. Keep your blood-dripping proboscis out of my society, you fucking vampire mosquito.
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This makes me furious beyond words. Keep your blood-dripping proboscis out of my society, you fucking vampire mosquito.
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Bland boilerplate is honestly sort of underrated. You don’t really *want* a big faceless organization or stranger trying to be your friend when giving you potentially bad news. Obviously actual personal empathy is better but that’s not always possible.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bland boilerplate is honestly sort of underrated. You don’t really *want* a big faceless organization or stranger trying to be your friend when giving you potentially bad news. Obviously actual personal empathy is better but that’s not always possible.